Chimney-top.



PATENTED APR. 16, 1907.

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SOLOMON M. KEMP, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CHIMNEY-TOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 16, 1907.

Application filed October 17, 1905. Renewed September 28, 1906. Serial No. 336,563.

7 ing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in chimney-tops, the object being to provide a cheap and effective top be to used where a proper draft cannot be had by the use of an ordinary chimney-top, but more especially to be used in the repair of chimneys where the ordinary top has become useless by reason of decay as the result of long usage and expo sure to the weather.

It is a well-known fact that the decay of a chimney-top made of brickand mortar is caused by the gases passing through it which destroy the mortar and cause it to crumble and the bricks to fall, necessitating the restoration of the chimney-top as originally built or to provide a top of some kind or description. In most cases to restore the top in its original manner is expensive, owing to the inconvenience of securing the material and labor. To provide against the decay of a chimney-top and to cheapen the cost of repairing by the use of my top is the object of my invention. Being composed of cement the top is not affected by the gases which pass through it, and the woven-wire gauze molded within it prevents it from crumbling and falling. It also consists in certain novel features and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view.

In Fig. 1, 9 is a chimney. 1 1 are the semi-oval sections which form the chimneytop. The section as shown in Fig. 2 is made of cement and molded, having the wovenwire gauze 7 placed within, as if made of two distinctparts, such as 1 and 8. 2 2 is the base. 6 is an oval-shaped hole to give additional draft, while 4 is a layer of cement used to hold the two sections together where they overlap at the points 4 and 5. Both sections are of the same material and construction, with the exception that one or the other is of less degree in semicircumference to allow the lap to be made at 3 and 5 by the means of the cement 4, so as to make a joint that will be weatherproof and durable.

The foregoing construction affords a simple means of making a chimney-top that may be quickly placed on a chimney and held in place by the simple means of spreading a layer of cement on the'top base of the chimney proper, setting the top thereon in the cement, and when the cement becomes hardened the top is permanently aflixed to the chimney. I

Slight changes might be resorted to in the form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. Hence I do not desire to limit myself to the exact construction as herein set forth but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isr An article of manufacture, a chimney-top comprising two semi-oval-shaped sections, made of cement, interwoven with wire-gauze, each section being cut out at the top part thereof so that when placed together an oval draft-hole is formed in the top part therein, one section being shaped of a greater semicircumferential degree than the other whereby one will overlap the other at the top forming a joint whereby they may be cemented together, all in combination substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SOLOMON M. KEMP. Witnesses:

E. WALTON BREWINGTON, MARY M. MAGRAW. 

